Kristen Sereci, a 25-year-old who works in human resources in Portland, Ore., is already planning her funeral. She isn’t sick. She just found out there’s a website and an app for it. “It’s important for people to think about end-of-life...

In her last days, 5-year-old Julianna Yuri Snow of Vancouver, Washington, couldn’t move her arms or legs or breathe on her own, but that didn’t stop her from being as fabulous as she could possibly be. Every morning, she put on a princess dress and tiara...

While funeral service has changed in many ways over the years, the newspaper obituary is still the best way to reach your community. If you are trying to reach people over 55 years old, it’s time to take a second look at the time-honored tradition of print obituaries....

I hover expectantly over Ellen, and she looks up from her iPad, her eyes shiny. The device is a birthday present she asked my husband, Harry, and me to get for her six months earlier, and I’m glad we did so that she can now distract herself with old...

He was angry that his dad, an FDNY battalion chief whose remains were never found, had missed so much of his life. He was angry every time one of his four children was christened and his father wasn’t there to witness it. Read More at...